Fake news Quotes (60 Quotes)

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  “The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.”

  Piero Scaruffi

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  “In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people, through big data, biometric data, and AI analysis of online profiles and behaviors in social media and smart phones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too.”

  Amit Ray

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  “The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.”

  Thomas Sowell

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  “You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!”

  Israelmore Ayivor

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• “We need to suggest the enemy within. We need enemies of the people we want their judges called enemies of the people we want their journalists called enemies of the people we want the people we decide to call enemies of the people called enemies of the people we want to say loudly over and over again on as many tv and radio shows as possible how they're silencing us. We need to say all the old stuff like it's new. We need news to be what we say it is. We need words to mean what we say they mean. We need to deny what we're saying while we're saying it. We need it not to matter what words mean.”

  Ali Smith

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  “...but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly.”

  James Baldwin

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  “The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a very definite kind of mass leadership and mass influence: authoritarian, one-party system, hence totalitarian, a system in which power takes priority over objective interests, and facts are distorted for political purposes. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.”

  Wilhelm Reich

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  “All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

  Vladimir Lenin

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  “All control, in essence, is about who controls the truth.”

  Joseph Rain

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  “Separate text from context and all that remains is a con.”

  Stewart Stafford

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  “Only fake people value fake news”

  Oche Otorkpa

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  “In other words, if a patent forgery like the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is believed by so many people that it can become the text of a whole political movement, the task of the historian is no longer to discover a forgery. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical facts of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is a forgery.”

  Hannah Arendt

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• “The official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes unanimously brand as nonsensical the idea that there exists a single objective truth valid for everybody. The criterion of "truth," they say, is not agreement with reality, but agreement with the spirit of a race or nation or class—that is, racial, national or utilitarian. Pushing to their limits the biological, pragmatist, activist theories of truth, the official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes deny the inherent value of thought. For them thought is not a light but a weapon: its function, they say, is not to discover reality as it is, but to change and transform it with the purpose of leading us towards what is not. Such being the case, myth is better than science and rhetoric that works on the passions preferable to proof that appeals to the intellect.”

  Alexandre Koyré

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  “Fake news is like ice, once it comes in contact with the heat of the truth it melts quickly and suddenly evaporates.”

  Oche Otorkpa

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  “A wise man’s words are rarely questioned,” he counselled gently.
  “Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.”

  Norton Juster

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  “Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.”

  Steven D. Levitt

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  “Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.”

  Steven D. Levitt

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  “The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.”

  Marilyn Monroe

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  “Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.”

  Linda Gordon

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• “But even when Facebook isn't deliberately exploiting its users, it is exploiting its users—its business model requires it. Even if you distance yourself from Facebook, you still live in the world that Facebook is shaping. Facebook, using our native narcissism and our desire to connect with other people, captured our attention and our behavioral data; it used this attention and data to manipulate our behavior, to the point that nearly half of America began relying on Facebook for news. Then, with the media both reliant on Facebook as a way of reaching readers and powerless against the platform's ability to suck up digital advertising revenue—it was like a paperboy who pocketed all the subscription money—Facebook bent the media's economic model to match its own practices: publications needed to capture attention quickly and consistently trigger high emotional responses to be seen at all. The result, in 2016, was an unending stream of Trump stories, both from the mainstream news and from the fringe outlets that were buoyed by Facebook's algorithm. What began as a way for Zuckerberg to harness collegiate misogyny and self-interest has become the fuel for our whole contemporary nightmare, for a world that fundamentally and systematically misrepresents human needs.”

  Jia Tolentino

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  “Newspaper stories aren't always accurate," Klaus said nervously.
  The shopkeeper frowned. "Nonsense," he said. "The Daily Punctilio wouldn't print things that aren't true. If the newspaper says somebody is a murderer, then they are a murderer and that's the end of it. Now you said you wanted to send a telegram?”

  Lemony Snicket

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  “For propagandists, whatever promoted the Allied cause was true, whether factual or not. What counted was the noble end--victory--not the sordid means of achieving it. 'Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms,' declared a CPI official. 'There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other....There are lifeless truths and vital lies....The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.”

  Albert Marrin

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• “From husks and rags and waste and excrement
  He forms the pavement-feet and the lift-faces;
  He steers the sick words into parliament
  To rule a dust-bin world with deep-sleep phrases.
  
  When healthy words or people chance to dine
  Together in this rarely actual scene,
  There is a love-taste in the bread and wine,
  Nor is it asked: "Do you mean what you mean?"
  
  But to their table-converse boldly comes
  The same great-devil with his brush and tray,
  To conjure plump loaves from the scattered crumbs,
  And feed his false five thousands day by day.
  
  - Hell”

  Robert Graves

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  “Fake News has become an art form.”

  A.E. Samaan

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  “Our understanding of what is really 'newsworthy' is a misunderstanding.”

  Louis Yako

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